Abyssal fan

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Abyssal Fans, also known as deep-sea fans, underwater deltas, and submarine fans, are underwater structures that look like deltas formed at the end of many large rivers, such as the Nile or Mississippi Rivers. Abyssal fans are also thought of as an underwater version of alluvial fans. Abyssal (or submarine) fans are formed due to turbidites . Tubidites are essentially gravity driven underwater avalanches. As sediment is deposited on the continent... more
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